NBA
I think one of the biggest problems with NBA debates is that we rarely remember a player's entire career. We remember versions of people. Michael Jordan is wearing No. 23 in Chicago. Shaq is in a Lakers jersey. Allen Iverson is stepping over Tyronn Lue. Ray Allen is
WNBA
Ten years ago, one of the easiest ways to disappear from the American sports conversation was to talk seriously about women’s basketball. Now, apparently, it is one of the easiest ways to get back into it. Over the last few years, and especially since the WNBA’s explosion in
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The Raptors helped make basketball national in Canada. The CEBL matters because it makes professional basketball local. I think one of the easiest ways to misunderstand the Canadian Elite Basketball League is to judge it by what it is not. It is not the NBA. The arenas are smaller. The
NBA
The modern NBA has two scarce resources: cap space and possessions. The most valuable players are the ones who can create an impact without consuming too much of either. In my Jaylen Brown Trade article, I wrote that I did not believe Jaylen Brown was overrated in a basketball sense.
Music
He could convert poverty into texture, competition into sequencing, martial-arts movies into mythology, separate record contracts into collective promotion, individual personalities into album identities and eventually other producers’ beats into records that still sounded unmistakably Wu-Tang. The argument usually begins the way the best rap arguments begin: with
Film
Matt Damon is going to win an Oscar for this performance, and it will be well deserved. I saw the movie on July 17 at 11 p.m. at Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan, in 70mm IMAX, as Nolan intended. Going into the movie, I was extremely excited. As someone who appreciates
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Canadian football survived by refusing to become the NFL. The harder question is whether it could have borrowed the NFL’s structure without surrendering its identity. The Canadian Football League, aka the CFL, is one of the prides of Canada and Canadian culture because it is a unique and exclusively
NBA
I don't think Jaylen Brown was overrated in a basketball sense. Rather, he became overpaid in this new roster-building environment. As someone who became a Celtics fan as a seven-year-old kid from Ajax, Ontario, I can remember most of the tail end of the 2000s
NBA
Case No. 15: Toronto spent twenty years prosecuting Vince Carter. The evidence was real. The verdict was incomplete. With Kawhi Leonard reportedly coming back to Toronto, now is the perfect time to look back at the first superstar the Raptors ever had. NBA.com News Services reported that the Raptors
General
There is a specific way sports and culture shape how you see the world. It is not just about games, albums, or films in isolation. It is about how they overlap, how they build identity, and how they stay with you long after the final whistle or final track. Triple